id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2683 Women in Love - Wikipedia .html text/html 2486 316 74 After years of misunderstandings, accusations of duplicity, and hurried letters, Thomas Seltzer finally published the first edition of Women in Love in New York City, on 9 November 1920. This had come after three drawn out years of delays and revisions.[3] This first limited edition (1,250 books) was available only to subscribers, due to the controversy caused by Lawrence's previous work, The Rainbow (1915). Charles Pilley, an early reviewer wrote of it in John Bull, "I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps—festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven."[4] Lawrence was sued for libel by Lady Ottoline Morrell and others, who claimed their likenesses were unjustly drawn upon in The Rainbow.[5] The book also later stirred criticism for its portrayal of love, denounced as chauvinistic and centred upon the phallus by the feminist Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949).[6] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2683.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2683.txt